24. Killer Within
Another day and another day in prison. I still couldn't believe that the one place my dad never wanted me to end up, would be the place I would end up. It was still safe which was a surprise. They'd been doing numerous things the adults in charge had been doing. Mainly securing the whole perimeter. We didn't want any breaking in or walkers getting in. I hadn't heard much about the other prisoners either. They had their one side and we had ours. "Can we go outside?" Grace asked me as I was brushing my hair and I looked at her with a smile.
"Of course. Let's see the world." I said to her with a smile and we went to our usual spot. The bodies and cleared out making the area a better smelling one.
"Have you ever thought about what could be if times some of the things that happened didn't." I said to her and we started walking around the yard making sure that the adults could see us.
"Sometimes, I wonder how school would be. I wonder how people from our school are? But I don't really want to think about that, who knows where they are. Or what they are." Grace said to me and she was right. We didn't know what could've happened to them, it was something that I didn't even want to think about.
"Just think of then from when they were alive, and here with us and that's the best way to think of it. That's the way you want remember them. Not where they're walkers." I said to her and that's when I saw Hershel appear outside with the others.
"It looks like Hershel's up." Grace said with a smile. We'd be hoping it would happen soon. He needed to be up and around not in that cage.
"Finally, it'll do him good." I said with a smile. We were all so happy to see that he was okay.
"All right, Hershel!" Glenn shouted and that's when I thought about the walkers. It was nice to be at a place of peace. It was silent. That was until I saw walkers.
"Grace, come on." I said as I helped her up and we ran over to T and Carol. Who put an arm around us. How did they even get in?
"Walkers!" Carl shouted. Someone had let them in. We then started running to help tackle the crowd of them coming our way. I wasn't to leave Carol or T. But to stay close to them. I didn't have a gun only a knife. Carol was showing us where to go. That was when I felt my heart stop.
"No!" I heard her shout. That was when I saw that he has been bitten.
"No!" I shouted, the one that looked after me. The one that made sure that I was okay. The one who became my father figure to me when my own didn't care. He was gone. Soon he'd be one of those things. I'd be losing the person who cared most for me. And that was breaking me.
"Hurry!" Carol shouted as we went into the doorway. We then started running.
"Y/n, don't remember me this way. You have to remember I loved you like a daughter. Don't remember me for this. You gotta stay strong for Grace." He said to me as I was crying. We then heard an alarm go.
"Y/n, I'm scared." She said to me and I knew what this would mean. More walkers would be passing through. More than we could handle.
"Don't worry sweetie, everything will be okay." Carol said to her and she took Grace and had her with her. I was with T.
"We're going to be okay right?" I asked him, I didn't want him to go. I wanted him to stay. To live.
"You'll be okay. Don't worry about me." He said to me with a smile, he was trying to make me feel fine. We then ran into another issue. Another hoard the gun clicked in Carol's hand but no bullets remained.
"Oh, shit. Go back!" Carol shouted, there was only one way back and it was that way. Towards them.
"No. We're close. We're close!" T shouted and he was right but we had no way of getting through.
"No!" Carol shouted and T ran forwards sacrificing himself for us. This would be my last memory of him. Saving us by letting himself go.
"No!" I shouted and tears came out. I'd never stop crying.
"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! I'm dead!" He shouted as we ran, I watched as he got bitten by walkers. That would be how I'd see him. Not the time we sat in the porch at Hershel's talking together. But as the time that I witnessed him die in front of me. It felt like everyone that I ever looked up to would just leave. In so many different ways. But this, this would be my first thought at night. This is what I would see as I close my eyes. Something that I would never forget. Carol had to pull me along.
"T! No!" I shouted with tears. Carol looked at me.
"We have to keep going." She said to me and she was right. We couldn't let his death go to waste. Now we had to get back to the cell block.
"Where are we?" Grace asked in a whisper. I was still crying, we were lost.
"I don't know. But we'll get back don't worry." She said to the two of us. I was starting to think that we wouldn't. Prisons a big place I wouldn't know if we were close or not.
"We just have to keep going, we'll get their eventually." I said to her and I was just trying to lie to myself by saying we would be fine even though in reality who knew if we were. Who knew if the others were okay. At this point just the three of us were alive.
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